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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,752
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Originally Posted by IROC
Yeah, we started this job a couple of days after Christmas and just finished it up yesterday. Most of time was spent connecting the new piping for the super-critical hydrogen moderators (multi-layer, vacuum-jacketed piping that has to be cold-shocked with liquid nitrogen and leak tested after every weld). The neutrons are traveling at about 90% of the speed of light when they are produced, so we pass them thru liquid hydrogen to slow them down.
Here we are installing the some of the final shield blocks yesterday:
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Very cool!
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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